On Jan. 6, 1987, when The New York Times printed my first column, the headline I had written was: ''Please Read This Column!'' It was not just one journalist's message of the day, but every writer's prayer -- come know me. Sometimes I wanted to...

November 5, 1999, Friday

Given their assets and handicaps, Vice President Gore and Bill Bradley came off quite nicely in their first television whatever. But the questioners in the New Hampshire audience, so well educated and well mannered, did themselves no credit. ...

October 29, 1999, Friday

More often now, the special cargo arrives in China from Israel -- files from Israeli military computers, crates with the makings of missiles and other weapons, and the men in the lab coats, the engineers and scientists who know how to put it all...

October 22, 1999, Friday

Ever since their independence, the U.S. has made decisions about India and Pakistan fully aware that it was dealing with countries that would have increasing political and military significance, for international good or evil. Now that both have...

October 15, 1999, Friday

In New York over the past few days, two major opponents in Israeli political life separately raised somber and fundamentally identical questions about the problems of achieving peace between Israel and the Arabs. The two men, who spoke before...

October 8, 1999, Friday

The beginning of the amateur video shows the first day of worship in the handsome new church -- the congregation taking communion from the Catholic priests. The film is dated Feb. 14, 1999. Then it flows without a break into a section filmed...

Speaking with clean clarity, Senator John McCain has become the only Republican Presidential candidate to accept and pass a political and moral challenge that faces them all. He said exactly where Patrick Buchanan belonged in the Republican Party --...

September 24, 1999, Friday

Riding with the waves, Fortune magazine in New York has come up with a terrific, with-it, win-win idea. For Oct. 1 the Chinese Communist Politburo has organized a national celebration of the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic following the...

Deep in our hearts there is pain, said the Prime Minister of Israel. He spoke as his Cabinet voted to give the Arabs 7 percent more of what the world calls the West Bank, Arabs call Palestine and Israelis whose pain is deepest call Judea and Samaria....

September 10, 1999, Friday

After a lifetime in daily journalism, I still worry when real news is treated as no news at all. Journalists write about what interests them and, they hope, a slice of their particular audiences large enough to keep their newspaper or TV station a...